EP0595321B1 - Sheet convey apparatus - Google Patents

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EP0595321B1
EP0595321B1 EP93117498A EP93117498A EP0595321B1 EP 0595321 B1 EP0595321 B1 EP 0595321B1 EP 93117498 A EP93117498 A EP 93117498A EP 93117498 A EP93117498 A EP 93117498A EP 0595321 B1 EP0595321 B1 EP 0595321B1
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Tetsuhiro c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Nita
c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Kanemitsu Shinji
Makoto C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Kashimura
Makoto C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Takemura
Shinya C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Matsui
Toshiyuki C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Onishi
Yasuhiro C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Unosawa
Masaru C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Sato
Hisashi C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Morioka
Hiroshi C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Yoshino
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H5/00—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines
    • B65H5/06—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers or balls, e.g. between rollers
    • B65H5/062—Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers or balls, e.g. between rollers between rollers or balls

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  • the present invention relates to a sheet convey apparatus for conveying a sheet and an image forming apparatus equipped therewith.
  • an image is recorded on a recording sheet (recording medium) such as a paper sheet, a plastic film and the like by selectively driving energy generating elements of a recording head in response to a recording information.
  • a recording sheet recording medium
  • the recording apparatus can be grouped into an ink jet type, a wire dot type, a thermal type, a laser beam type or the like in accordance with recording systems.
  • the recording sheet used with the recording apparatus may be not only a normal sheet, but also a thick sheet such as a post card and an envelope or a special sheet such as a plastic film.
  • recording sheets 117 are separated one by one by rotating supply rollers 108 of an automatic sheet supply portion 105, and the separated sheet is fed to a sheet convey apparatus having a convey roller 103 and pinch rollers 107 and then is fed to a recording portion from the convey roller 103. Thereafter, the recording sheet is sent to sheet discharge rollers disposed downstream of the convey roller 103 and then is discharged onto a discharge tray.
  • the conveyance of the recording sheet 117 is effected by urging the recording sheet 117 against the convey roller 103 by a plurality of pinch rollers 117 and by rotating the convey roller 103.
  • a surface of the convey roller 103 is formed from a material having a high coefficient of friction such as rubber or urethane and a surface of each pinch roller 117 is formed from a material having a low coefficient of friction such as SUS or Teflon.
  • Each pinch roller 117 is rotatably mounted on both ends 114a, 114b of a corresponding pinch roller holder member 114.
  • the other end of the pinch roller holder member 114 is rotatably mounted on a chassis 116 and is biased by spring members 109 to urge the pinch roller 107 against the convey roller 103.
  • the bearings of the pinch roller holder are disposed at two points (left and right ends of the pinch roller), the urging forces at the left and right ends of the pinch roller (against the convey roller) are differentiated from each other due to the dispersion in the dimensions of the bearings and the dispersion in the spring forces, with the result that, if the recording sheet is conveyed only by the single pinch roller, the sheet will be skew-fed. Further, since the bearings of the pinch roller holder 114 are disposed at two left and right points, it is feared that the urging force is decreased due to the elastic deformation of the pinch roller holder.
  • the pinch roller is supported via a rockably mounted support member.
  • the support member is biased by a biasing force which is applied along a circle, having its center at a point outside the feeding range.
  • the DE-A-2 327 932 shows a sheet convey apparatus in which a pinch roller being supported on a support means is biased against a driven convey belt.
  • Leaf springs are used as support members in order to apply the biasing force onto the pinch rollers.
  • the leaf springs are mounted fixedly to the apparatus.
  • this object is achieved with respect to the sheet convey apparatus by the features of claims 1 or 6 and with respect to the image forming apparatus by the features of claim 9.
  • the parallelism between the pinch roller and the convey roller is always maintained either by a movement regulating member wherein a biasing force acts on a support means of the pinch roller at the center of the pinch roller in its widthwise direction or by a rockable support member for the pinch roller, being biased in alignment with the center of the pinch roller in its widthwise direction.
  • Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a recording apparatus to which the present invention is applied
  • Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of Fig. 1
  • Fig. 3 is a side sectional view of the apparatus of Fig. 1
  • Fig. 4 is a detailed sectional view of a pinch roller holder bearing
  • Fig. 5 is a detailed sectional view of retainer members.
  • Each pinch roller 7 has a central small diameter shaft 7c.
  • Each small diameter shaft 7c is rotatably supported by a corresponding pinch roller bearing 15 positioned at a central portion of the pinch roller holder 4.
  • Each pinch roller 7 is supported at the central position alone. Incidentally, each pinch roller 7 may not have the central small diameter shaft and may not have the same diameter in its whole length.
  • a spring member 9 urges the corresponding pinch roller bearing 15.
  • retainer members 14a, 14b for maintaining the parallelism between the convey roller 3 and the pinch roller 7 in a plane flush with a surface of the recording sheet and the parallelism therebetween in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the recording sheet within a certain play range are arranged at left and right ends of the pinch roller holder 4.
  • the retainer members 14a, 14b keep the small diameter shaft 7c with a predetermined play.
  • any play regarding the parallelism in the plane flush with the surface of the recording sheet affects a bad influence upon the accuracy of a recording start position with respect to the recording sheet, such play is desired to be zero. However, for example, even if there is the play of 0.1 - 0.2 mm along the whole length (of 40 mm) of the pinch roller 7, any problem will not occur. Further, since the play regarding the parallelism in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the recording sheet serves to suppress the movability of the pinch roller, such play may be about 0.1 - 1.0 mm. Since each pinch roller holder 4 is mounted on a chassis 16 for free rotational movement with respect to the convey roller 3, the pinch roller 7 is urged against the convey roller 3 via the pinch roller bearing 15 by an urging force of the spring member 9.
  • a surface of the convey roller 3 is formed from a material having a high coefficient of friction such as rubber or urethane, and the convey roller cooperates with the pinch rollers to pinch the recording sheet therebetween and is rotated by a drive source (not shown) to sent the recording sheet onto a platen 12, where an image is recorded on the recording sheet by a recording head 2.
  • the recording sheet on which the image was recorded is discharged onto a discharge portion 23 by discharge rollers 10, 11.
  • the recording head 2 may be an ink jet recording head for recording the image by discharging ink from nozzles due to the growth of bubbles generated in the ink by means of heat generating means.
  • each pinch roller 7 is urged by the corresponding spring member 9 at its central portion.
  • each pinch roller 7 is regulated by a member 21 disposed at the urging position for the pinch roller only in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the recording sheet (Fig. 6 is a sectional view of such member).
  • the parallelism regarding the surface of the recording sheet is regulated only by members 22a, 22b arranged at left and right ends of the pinch roller holder 4 (Fig. 7 is a detailed description view of such members). That is to say, since each pinch roller is positioned by three members 21, 22a, 22b arranged at three points on the corresponding pinch roller holder and the alignment of the pinch roller is permitted without increasing the sliding resistance, the same technical advantage as the first embodiment can be obtained.
  • Each pinch roller holder 4 is rotatably mounted on a corresponding bearing plate 18 via a shaft.
  • the bearing plate 18 is mounted on a shaft 19 for rotational movement in directions shown by the arrow with respect to the convey roller 3.
  • the pinch roller 7 can be aligned together with the pinch roller holder 4 with respect to the convey roller 3, thereby obtaining the same conveying ability for the recording sheet as the aforementioned embodiments.
  • the present invention it is possible to make the urging forces of the pinch rollers against the convey roller uniform without increasing the rotational resistance of the pinch rollers, and, thus, to prevent the skew-feed of the recording sheet.
  • the present invention provides a sheet convey apparatus comprising a convey roller contacting with a sheet while rotating to apply a convey force to the sheet, a pinch roller for cooperating with the convey roller to convey the sheet, a support means for supporting a center of the pinch roller in its widthwise direction, and a biasing means for biasing the support means in such a manner that the support means urges the pinch roller against the convey roller in the widthwise direction of the pinch roller.

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Abstract

The present invention provides a sheet convey apparatus comprising a convey roller contacting with a sheet while rotating to apply a convey force to the sheet, a pinch roller for cooperating with the convey roller to convey the sheet, a support means for supporting a center of the pinch roller in its widthwise direction, and a biasing means for biasing the support means in such a manner that the support means urges the pinch roller against the convey roller in the widthwise direction of the pinch roller. <IMAGE>

Description

The present invention relates to a sheet convey apparatus for conveying a sheet and an image forming apparatus equipped therewith.
In recording apparatuses such as a printer, copying machine, facsimile machine and the like, an image is recorded on a recording sheet (recording medium) such as a paper sheet, a plastic film and the like by selectively driving energy generating elements of a recording head in response to a recording information. The recording apparatus can be grouped into an ink jet type, a wire dot type, a thermal type, a laser beam type or the like in accordance with recording systems. Further, the recording sheet used with the recording apparatus may be not only a normal sheet, but also a thick sheet such as a post card and an envelope or a special sheet such as a plastic film.
As shown in Fig. 9, in a conventional recording apparatus, recording sheets 117 are separated one by one by rotating supply rollers 108 of an automatic sheet supply portion 105, and the separated sheet is fed to a sheet convey apparatus having a convey roller 103 and pinch rollers 107 and then is fed to a recording portion from the convey roller 103. Thereafter, the recording sheet is sent to sheet discharge rollers disposed downstream of the convey roller 103 and then is discharged onto a discharge tray.
The conveyance of the recording sheet 117 is effected by urging the recording sheet 117 against the convey roller 103 by a plurality of pinch rollers 117 and by rotating the convey roller 103. A surface of the convey roller 103 is formed from a material having a high coefficient of friction such as rubber or urethane and a surface of each pinch roller 117 is formed from a material having a low coefficient of friction such as SUS or Teflon. Each pinch roller 117 is rotatably mounted on both ends 114a, 114b of a corresponding pinch roller holder member 114. The other end of the pinch roller holder member 114 is rotatably mounted on a chassis 116 and is biased by spring members 109 to urge the pinch roller 107 against the convey roller 103. In order to urge the pinch roller against the convey roller, there have been proposed a method for urging the other end of the bearing of the pinch roller 107 as a better dynamic point with respect to the rotation center of the pinch roller holder 114 by a leaf spring, a coil spring and the like, a method for directly urging the bearings at left and right ends of the pinch roller holder as better dynamic points, a method for urging the center of the pinch roller holder and the like.
However, in the conventional sheet convey apparatus, since the bearings of the pinch roller holder are disposed at two points (left and right ends of the pinch roller), the urging forces at the left and right ends of the pinch roller (against the convey roller) are differentiated from each other due to the dispersion in the dimensions of the bearings and the dispersion in the spring forces, with the result that, if the recording sheet is conveyed only by the single pinch roller, the sheet will be skew-fed. Further, since the bearings of the pinch roller holder 114 are disposed at two left and right points, it is feared that the urging force is decreased due to the elastic deformation of the pinch roller holder. In order to prevent the elastic deformation, an additional bearing is must be provided at a center of the pinch roller holder 114. However, in this case (when three bearings are arranged), since the sliding resistance of each pinch roller is increased, the convey accuracy of the recording sheet is badly influenced.
The EP-A-0 562 808 as prior art under Art. 54(3) EPC with respect to the designating states DE, FR and GB only shows a sheet convey apparatus in which a sheet is transported by being clamped between a convey roller and a pinch roller. The pinch roller is supported via a rockably mounted support member. The support member is biased by a biasing force which is applied along a circle, having its center at a point outside the feeding range.
The DE-A-2 327 932 shows a sheet convey apparatus in which a pinch roller being supported on a support means is biased against a driven convey belt. Leaf springs are used as support members in order to apply the biasing force onto the pinch rollers. The leaf springs are mounted fixedly to the apparatus.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet convey apparatus and an image forming apparatus equipped therewith in which a conveying ability is improved.
According to the invention, this object is achieved with respect to the sheet convey apparatus by the features of claims 1 or 6 and with respect to the image forming apparatus by the features of claim 9.
Advantageous further developments are set out in the dependent claims.
According to the present invention, the parallelism between the pinch roller and the convey roller is always maintained either by a movement regulating member wherein a biasing force acts on a support means of the pinch roller at the center of the pinch roller in its widthwise direction or by a rockable support member for the pinch roller, being biased in alignment with the center of the pinch roller in its widthwise direction. Thereby, a skew-feed of the recording sheet can be prevented by a simple mechanism.
According to the present invention it is possible to make the urging force of a pinch roller against a convey roller uniform without increasing the rotational resistance of the pinch roller and to prevent the skew-feed of a sheet.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing a first embodiment of the present invention;
  • Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 3 is a schematic side view showing the first embodiment;
  • Figs. 4 and 5 are detailed sectional views showing the first embodiment;
  • Figs. 6 and 7 are detailed sectional views showing a second embodiment of the present invention;
  • Fig. 8 is a schematic perspective view showing a third embodiment of the present invention; and
  • Fig. 9 is a schematic perspective view of a conventional recording apparatus.
    • The present invention will be described in the following in detail with respect to preferred embodiments.
    First of all, a first embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to the accompanying drawings. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a recording apparatus to which the present invention is applied, Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a side sectional view of the apparatus of Fig. 1, Fig. 4 is a detailed sectional view of a pinch roller holder bearing, and Fig. 5 is a detailed sectional view of retainer members.
    Recording sheets 17 stacked on a sheet supply tray 6 of an automatic sheet supply portion 5 are separated one by one by sheet supply rollers 8, and the separated recording sheet is guided between a sheet guide 13 and pinch roller holders 4 and then is sent to a convey roller 3 of a recording portion 1. In this case, since the pinch roller holders 4 serve as guide for holding down the recording sheet 17 to prevent the recording sheet from floating, the recording sheet 17 is surely sent to a location between the convey roller 3 and pinch rollers 7. Each pinch roller 7 has a central small diameter shaft 7c. Each small diameter shaft 7c is rotatably supported by a corresponding pinch roller bearing 15 positioned at a central portion of the pinch roller holder 4. Each pinch roller 7 is supported at the central position alone. Incidentally, each pinch roller 7 may not have the central small diameter shaft and may not have the same diameter in its whole length.
    A spring member 9 urges the corresponding pinch roller bearing 15. Further, retainer members 14a, 14b for maintaining the parallelism between the convey roller 3 and the pinch roller 7 in a plane flush with a surface of the recording sheet and the parallelism therebetween in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the recording sheet within a certain play range are arranged at left and right ends of the pinch roller holder 4. The retainer members 14a, 14b keep the small diameter shaft 7c with a predetermined play.
    Since any play regarding the parallelism in the plane flush with the surface of the recording sheet affects a bad influence upon the accuracy of a recording start position with respect to the recording sheet, such play is desired to be zero. However, for example, even if there is the play of 0.1 - 0.2 mm along the whole length (of 40 mm) of the pinch roller 7, any problem will not occur. Further, since the play regarding the parallelism in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the recording sheet serves to suppress the movability of the pinch roller, such play may be about 0.1 - 1.0 mm. Since each pinch roller holder 4 is mounted on a chassis 16 for free rotational movement with respect to the convey roller 3, the pinch roller 7 is urged against the convey roller 3 via the pinch roller bearing 15 by an urging force of the spring member 9.
    A surface of the convey roller 3 is formed from a material having a high coefficient of friction such as rubber or urethane, and the convey roller cooperates with the pinch rollers to pinch the recording sheet therebetween and is rotated by a drive source (not shown) to sent the recording sheet onto a platen 12, where an image is recorded on the recording sheet by a recording head 2. The recording sheet on which the image was recorded is discharged onto a discharge portion 23 by discharge rollers 10, 11. Incidentally, the recording head 2 may be an ink jet recording head for recording the image by discharging ink from nozzles due to the growth of bubbles generated in the ink by means of heat generating means.
    Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to Figs. 6 and 7.
    Similar to the first embodiment, each pinch roller 7 is urged by the corresponding spring member 9 at its central portion. In this second embodiment, each pinch roller 7 is regulated by a member 21 disposed at the urging position for the pinch roller only in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the recording sheet (Fig. 6 is a sectional view of such member). Further, in this second embodiment, the parallelism regarding the surface of the recording sheet is regulated only by members 22a, 22b arranged at left and right ends of the pinch roller holder 4 (Fig. 7 is a detailed description view of such members). That is to say, since each pinch roller is positioned by three members 21, 22a, 22b arranged at three points on the corresponding pinch roller holder and the alignment of the pinch roller is permitted without increasing the sliding resistance, the same technical advantage as the first embodiment can be obtained.
    Lastly, a third embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to Fig. 8.
    Each pinch roller holder 4 is rotatably mounted on a corresponding bearing plate 18 via a shaft. The bearing plate 18 is mounted on a shaft 19 for rotational movement in directions shown by the arrow with respect to the convey roller 3. With this arrangement the alignment of the pinch roller holder 4 with respect to the convey roller 3 is permitted, with the result that the pinch roller 7 supported by the pinch roller holder can be aligned in accordance with the movement of the pinch roller holder 4. Bearings for the pinch roller 7 may be arranged on both left and right ends. In this case, although the pinch roller is urged against the convey roller by the spring members 9 at both left and right ends, the pinch roller 7 can be aligned together with the pinch roller holder 4 with respect to the convey roller 3, thereby obtaining the same conveying ability for the recording sheet as the aforementioned embodiments.
    As mentioned above, according to the present invention, it is possible to make the urging forces of the pinch rollers against the convey roller uniform without increasing the rotational resistance of the pinch rollers, and, thus, to prevent the skew-feed of the recording sheet.
    The present invention provides a sheet convey apparatus comprising a convey roller contacting with a sheet while rotating to apply a convey force to the sheet, a pinch roller for cooperating with the convey roller to convey the sheet, a support means for supporting a center of the pinch roller in its widthwise direction, and a biasing means for biasing the support means in such a manner that the support means urges the pinch roller against the convey roller in the widthwise direction of the pinch roller.

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    1. A sheet convey apparatus, comprising
      a convey roller (3) contacting a sheet (17) while rotating for applying a convey force to said sheet (17),
      at least one pinch roller (7) co-operating with said convey roller (3) for conveying said sheet (17),
      support means (4; 15; 21) for supporting said at least one pinch roller (7) at a center in widthwise direction thereof,
      a movement regulating member (14a, 14b, 22a, 22b) provided at both lateral side ends of said support means (4; 15; 21) for permitting movement of said at least one pinch roller (7) and maintaining parallelism between said convey roller (3) and said at least one pinch roller (7) within a predetermined range, and
      biasing means (9) for biasing said support means (4; 15; 21) and acting in such a manner on said support means (4; 15; 21) that said at least one pinch roller (7) is urged against said convey roller (3) at the center in the widthwise direction thereof.
    2. A sheet convey apparatus according to claim 1,
      characterized in that
      a plurality of pinch rollers (7) are provided.
    3. A sheet convey apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
      characterized in that
      a biasing force of said biasing means (9) acts only on the center of said at least one pinch roller (7) in widthwise direction thereof.
    4. A sheet convey apparatus according to claim 1, 2 or 3,
      characterized in that
      said regulating member (22a, 22b) only regulates the parallelism of said at least one pinch roller (7).
    5. A sheet convey apparatus according to claim 4,
      characterized by
      a further regulating member (21) provided at the center of said support member (4) for regulating the urging position of said at least one pinch roller (7) in a direction perpendicular to the surface of said recording sheet (17).
    6. A sheet convey apparatus, comprising
      a convey roller (3) contacting a sheet (17) while rotating for applying a convey force to said sheet (17),
      at least one pinch roller (7) co-operating with said convey roller (3) for conveying said sheet (17),
      support means (4, 18, 19) for rockably supporting said at least one pinch roller (7) at a center thereof, and
      biasing means (9) for biasing said support means (4, 18, 19) and acting in such manner on said support means (4, 18, 19) that said biasing force being applied to said support means (4, 18, 19) is aligned with the center of said at least one pinch roller (7) in the widthwise direction thereof.
    7. A sheet convey apparatus according to claim 6,
      characterized in that
      a biasing force of said biasing means (9) acts only on the center of said at least one pinch roller (7) in widthwise direction thereof.
    8. A sheet convey apparatus according to claim 6,
      characterized in that
      a plurality of pinch rollers (7) are provided.
    9. An image forming apparatus comprising image forming means (2) for forming an image on said sheet (17) conveyed by a sheet convey apparatus according to any of claims 1 to 8.
    10. An image forming apparatus according to claim 9,
      characterized in that
      said image forming means (2) forms the image by discharging an ink droplet onto said sheet (17).
    11. An image forming apparatus according to claim 10,
      characterized in that
      said image forming means (2) generates a bubble in the ink by utilizing thermal energy to thereby discharge the ink by the growth of the bubble.
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